EP2472315B1 - Light collecting optical system and projection-type image display device - Google Patents

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EP2472315B1
EP2472315B1 EP10811500.7A EP10811500A EP2472315B1 EP 2472315 B1 EP2472315 B1 EP 2472315B1 EP 10811500 A EP10811500 A EP 10811500A EP 2472315 B1 EP2472315 B1 EP 2472315B1
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  • Patent Document 1 proposes an illumination system which uses LEDs of R, G, B colors and an integrator rod.
  • respective colors of light beams emitted from the LEDs of the respective colors are collimated by collimate lenses corresponding to the respective colors, the collimated light beams are synthesized by a dichroic mirror or the like, and the synthesized light is focused on an incident surface of the integrator rod by a common condenser lens.
  • PATENT DOCUMENT 1 Japanese Patent Kokai Publication No. 2005-242364
  • the illumination unit includes: at least one light source unit which radiates a collimated light beam; an optical integrator which converts the collimated light beam from the at least one light source unit into a uniform light beam; and a condensing lens system, disposed between the at least one light source unit and the optical integrator, which reduces a cross-section of the collimated light beam emitted from the at least one light source unit and then guides the collimated light beam with the reduced cross-section to the optical integrator and has a 1:1 conjugate property between an object and an image of the object.
  • the projection-type image display apparatus can display a high-brightness image using the light collecting optical system of a simple structure.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an arrangement of a light collecting optical system 1 and an arrangement of a projection-type image display apparatus 2 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • the light collecting optical system 1 includes a red-color collimate lens 13r having a positive power and collimating (i.e., making light approximately parallel) red-color light emitted from the red-color light emitting surface 12r; a green-color collimate lens 13g having a positive power and collimating (i.e., making light approximately parallel) green-color light emitted from the green-color light emitting surface 12g; and a blue-color collimate lens 13b having a positive power and collimating (i.e., making light approximately parallel) blue-color light emitted from the blue-color light emitting surface 12b.
  • a red-color collimate lens 13r having a positive power and collimating (i.e., making light approximately parallel) red-color light emitted from the red-color light emitting surface 12r
  • a green-color collimate lens 13g having a positive power and collimating (i.e., making light approximately parallel) green-color light emitted from the green-color
  • the light collecting optical system 1 also includes a light synthesis means for synthesizing red-color light that passed through the red-color collimate lens 13r, green-color light that passed through the green-color collimate lens 13g, and blue-color light that passed through the blue-color collimate lens 13b.
  • the light synthesis means is made of, for example, a cross dichroic mirror including two plates of dichroic mirrors 17 and 18 arranged to be perpendicular to each other.
  • the dichroic mirrors 17 and 18 has such a characteristic as to pass or reflect light having a specific wavelength band therethrough or thereby.
  • the light collecting optical system 1 further includes a condenser lens 19 having a positive power and collecting light synthesized by the light synthesis means, and an integrator rod 20 as a light-intensity-distribution uniformizing element having an incident surface 21 for receiving light collected by the condenser lens 19 and an exit surface 22 for outputting light, a light intensity distribution of which is uniformized.
  • the integrator rod 20 is made of a rectangular column of glass, a cross sectional view of which is rectangular.
  • the red-color emitting surfaces 12r, the green-color emitting surfaces 12g and the blue-color light emitting surface 12b have the same size and the same rectangular planar shape, and have a similar figure to the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20.
  • the 'similar figure' as stated herein includes not only a complete similar figure but also an approximately similar figure.
  • the light emitting surfaces, 12r, 12g and 12b have an approximately uniform brightness throughout the entire light emitting surface.
  • Each of the red-color collimate lens 13r, the green-color collimate lens 13g, the blue-color collimate lens 13b and the condenser lens 19 are made of, for example, one or more sheets of lenses and are made of the same glass material.
  • Dr denotes a distance from the red-color collimate lens 13r to an intersection point between the dichroic mirrors 17 and 18,
  • Dg denotes a distance from the green-color collimate lens 13g to an intersection point between the dichroic mirrors 17 and 18,
  • Db denotes a distance from the blue-color collimate lens 13b to an intersection point between the dichroic mirrors 17 and 18,
  • Dw denotes a distance from an intersection point between the dichroic mirrors 17 and 18 to the condenser lens 19.
  • the red-color surface-emitting light source 11r, the green-color surface-emitting light sources 11g and the blue-color surface-emitting light source 11b are arranged so that a secondary light source image of the red-color light emitting surface 12r focused on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 by the red-color collimate lens 13r and the condenser lens 19, a secondary light source image of the green-color light emitting surface 12g focused on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 by the green-color collimate lens 13g and the condenser lens 19, a secondary light source image of the blue-color light emitting surface 12b focused on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 by the blue-color collimate lens 13b and the condenser lens 19 have the same size.
  • the 'same size' as used herein includes not only a completely the same size but also approximately the same size.
  • the illumination optical system 23 irradiates a display surface 25 of the image display element 24 with light emitted from the integrator rod 20.
  • the exit surface 22 of the integrator rod 20 have a conjugate relationship with the display surface 25 of the image display element 24, so that an image of the exit surface 22 of the integrator rod 20 having a uniform brightness is formed on the display surface 25 of the image display element 24.
  • the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 and the display surface 25 of the image display element 24 are set to have mutually similar figures, the display surface 25 of the image display element 24 can be efficiently illuminated and a high light utilization efficiency can be achieved.
  • the image display element 24 is, for example, a transmissive or reflective liquid crystal panel or a DMD (Digital Micro-mirror Device), and has the display surface 25 having a structure, on which a large number of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged.
  • the image display element 24 generates video light by modulating intensity of light emitted from the illumination optical system 23 for each pixel according to a video signal.
  • the projection optical system 26 is made of a lens or a reflecting mirror or a combination thereof, and enlarges and projects the video light generated by the image display element 24 onto the screen 27 to display an image on the screen.
  • light beams emitted from the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the R, G, B-color surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b pass through the associated collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b, are synthesized by the dichroic mirrors 17 and 18, and then are collected onto the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20.
  • Light, a light intensity distribution of which has been uniformized by the integrator rod 20 passes through the illumination optical system 23 including lenses and so on, is irradiated on the image display element 24, and then is modulated by the image display element 24.
  • Image light modulated by the image display element 24 is enlarged and projected by the projection optical system 26 onto the screen 27 to display an image on the screen 27.
  • Etendue a quantity of concepts to be considered when a light collecting optical system and an illumination optical system are designed.
  • Etendue concept is applied to the light collecting optical system 1 and the projection-type image display apparatus 2 according to the first embodiment and when a luminous intensity distribution of light fluxes emitted from the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b is assumed to be a Lambertian distribution (perfect diffusion);
  • An Etendue of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b, an Etendue of the integrator rod 20 and an Etendue of the image display element 24 are defined respectively as a product of an area of the light emitting or receiving surface and a solid angle of light emitted from the light emitting surface or received at the light receiving surface, and are expressed by the following equations (1) to (3).
  • a light collecting optical system and an illumination optical system are designed so that the aforementioned quantities Es, Ei and El have the same value.
  • an Etendue of the image display element 24 is calculated according to equation (2) as about 37.7 as follows, which can be made equal to the Etendue of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b.
  • the optical system including the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the condenser lens 19 has a large aberration and the secondary light source image of the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b is focused on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 to be extended beyond the incident surface; light is undesirably illuminated even outside of the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 (light not received at the incident surface 21 is present), thus undesirably generating a light quantity loss.
  • An optical system including the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the condenser lens 19 is set to have a magnification smaller than a desired value, the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b have a smaller secondary light source image and no light is present outside of the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20.
  • light incident on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 has a larger converging angle. This causes the illumination angle of light incident on the display surface 25 of the image display element 24 to become larger, which undesirably results in generation of a light quantity loss or in that the projection optical system becomes large in scale.
  • the acceptance angle, the size of the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 and so on may be suitably optimized according to the specifications of the optical system.
  • the light beam 81g that passed through the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b is collimated, but the blue-color light beam 81b that passed through the collimate lens 13b is put in its dispersed state and the red-color light beam 81r that passed through the collimate lens 13r is put in its converged state.
  • the green-color light beam 81g is converged at the back focus f1 in the wavelength of green-color light (emitted from the light emitting surface) of the condenser lens 19 with a desired converging angle.
  • the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20 is imaged at the side of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b through the condenser lens 19 and the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b.
  • red, green and blue-color images are formed at the side of the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b opposed to the integrator rod 20, but the red-color image is formed at a position most away from the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b, the green-color image is formed at a position next away therefrom, and the blue-color image is formed nearest thereto.
  • the respective positions of the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b in the light collecting optical system 1 according to the first embodiment correspond to the positions of the red, green and blue images.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram showing main light beams emitted from corners of the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b of R, G, B colors.
  • elements that are the same as those in FIG. 2 are denoted by the same reference characters.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram showing main light beams emitted from corners of the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b of R, G, B colors.
  • the main light beam 82g emitted from the corner of the light emitting surface 12g of the surface-emitting light source 11g in a direction normal to the light emitting surface 12g is refracted by the collimate lens 13g, passes through the back focus f2 in the wavelength of green-color light (emitted from the light emitting surface) of the collimate lens 13g, is directed to the condenser lens 19, is refracted by the condenser lens 19 to be parallel to an optical axis AX3, and then is directed to the corresponding corner of the integrator rod 20.
  • the condenser lens 19 is arranged so that the front focus in the wavelength of green-color light (emitted from the light emitting surface) of the condenser lens 19 coincides with the back focus f2 in the wavelength of green-color light (emitted from the light emitting surface) of the collimate lens 13g; an optical system including the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the condenser lens 19 forms a telecentric optical system even toward the side of the integrator rod 20 with respect to the green-color light.
  • the main light beam 82b emitted from the corner of the light emitting surface 12b of the blue-color surface-emitting light source 11b to be parallel with the optical axis AX3 is refracted more strongly than the light beam 82g by the collimate lens 13b, passes through the side of the collimate lens 13b closer to the back focus f2 in the wavelength of green-color light (emitted from the light emitting surface) of the blue-color collimate lens 13b, is refracted by the condenser lens 19 more strongly than the green-color light beam 82g, exits the condenser lens 19 in its converged state, and then is intersected by the main green-color light beam 25g on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20.
  • the main light beam 82r emitted from the light emitting surface 12r of the red-color surface-emitting light source 11r to be parallel to the optical axis AX3 is refracted by the red-color collimate lens 13r more weakly than the light beam 82g, passes through the side of the condenser lens 19 closer than the back focus f2 in the wavelength of green-color light (emitted from the light emitting surface) of the collimate lens 13r, is refracted by the condenser lens 19 more weakly than the green-color light beam 82g, exits the condenser lens 19 in its dispersed state, and then is intersected by the main green-color light beam 82g on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20.
  • the secondary light source images of the respective colors having the same size can be focused on the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 20.
  • FIGs. 5 and 6 show in schematic form a radiation intensity distributions of light emitted from the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b.
  • FIG. 5 shows the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b having a Lambertian distribution 62
  • FIG. 6 shows a distribution 63 having an enhanced directivity of radiation light with provision of photonics crystals 61r, 61g and 61b for the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b of FIG. 5 .
  • FIG. 5 As shown in FIG. 5 , light emitted from the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b exhibits usually a Lambertian distribution, and is radiated in a spherically shape including the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b. It is also already known that the use of the photonics crystals 61r, 61g and 61b enables control of the advancing direction of light incident to the photonics crystals.
  • FIG. 6 corresponds to FIG. 5 but additionally provided with the photonics crystals 61r, 61g and 61b on the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources of FIG.
  • a radiation intensity of light is enhanced in a direction normal to the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b and in a range close to the vicinity thereof, and is weakened in the other directions.
  • a photonics crystal can be provided to each of the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b.
  • the optical system including the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the condenser lens 19 forms a telecentric optical system toward the side of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b.
  • the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b using photonics crystals to increase their directivities are employed, light emitted from the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b having high radiation intensities in its normal direction can be preferentially input into the light collecting optical system, so that a higher light utilization efficiency can be obtained.
  • FIGs. 7 and 8 are diagrams schematically showing optical paths of main light beams when the same collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the same condenser lens 19 are located at positions different from each other.
  • elements that are the same as those shown in FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference characters.
  • FIGs. 7 and 8 elements that are the same as those shown in FIG. 4 , are denoted by the same reference characters.
  • reference characters 83 and 84 denote main light beams emitted from the corners of the light emitting surfaces 12r, 12g and 12b of the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b
  • reference character f3 denotes a front focus of the condenser lens
  • AX4 and AX5 denote optical axes, respectively.
  • the angle of the main light beam directed to the incident surface 21 of the integrator rod 13r, 13g and 13b varies from color to color, thus involving reduction of the light utilization efficiency or deterioration in the brightness uniformity.
  • the distances from the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b to the condenser lens 19 are made approximately the same for the respective R, G, B colors , a high light utilization efficiency and a uniform brightness can be obtained.
  • the green-color surface-emitting light source 11g has been located to be opposed to the condenser lens 19 and the red and blue-color surface-emitting light sources 11r and 11b have been located to face a direction normal to the green-color surface-emitting light source 11g.
  • the present invention is not limited to such an example.
  • the blue-color surface-emitting light source 11b it is possible to locate the blue-color surface-emitting light source 11b to be opposed to the condenser lens 19 and to locate the red-color and green-color surface-emitting light sources 11r and 11g to face a direction normal to the blue-color surface-emitting light source 11b; or to locate the red-color surface-emitting light source 11r to be opposed to the condenser lens 19 and to locate the green-color and blue-color surface-emitting light sources 11g and 11b to face a direction normal to the red-color surface-emitting light source 11r.
  • the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the condenser lens 19 are made of a single piece of convex lens respectively.
  • the present invention is not limited to such an example, but may be made of each two or more pieces of lenses according to the specifications of the light collecting optical system such as the acceptance angle, magnification, etc.
  • the collimate lenses 13r, 13g and 13b and the condenser lens 19 are not limited to a spherical lens and may be an aspherical lens or a lens having a free curvature.
  • the present invention is not limited to this example, but may be another light-intensity-distribution uniformizing element such as a hollow light tunnel.
  • the above explanation has been made in connection with the case where a dichroic mirror has been used as a means for synthesizing light emitted from the surface-emitting light sources 11r, 11g and 11b of the R, G, B-colors.
  • the present invention is not limited to this example, but may be another light synthesis means such as a dichroic prism.
  • FIG. 9 is a diagram schematically showing an arrangement of a light collecting optical system 3 and an arrangement of a projection-type image display apparatus 4 according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
  • elements that are the same as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference characters.
  • surface-emitting light sources 31, 32 and 33 are surface-emitting light sources (e.g., LEDs) of R, G, B colors.
  • the surface-emitting light sources 31, 32 and 33 shown in FIG. 9 correspond to, for example, R, G, B surface-emitting light sources.
  • the present invention is not limited to such an example, but correspondences between the surface-emitting light sources 31, 32, 33 and the R, G, B colors may be other correspondences.
  • the transmissive and reflective characteristics of the dichroic mirrors 37 and 38 are determined by the colors of light emitted from the surface-emitting light sources 31, 32 and 33.
  • the dichroic mirror 37 has such a wavelength characteristic as to reflect light (first light) of a wavelength band emitted from the light emitting surface of the surface-emitting light source 31 and to pass light (second light) of a wavelength band emitted from the light emitting surface of the surface-emitting light source 32 and also to pass light (third light) of a wavelength band emitted from the light emitting surface of the surface-emitting light source 33.
  • the dichroic mirror 38 has such a wavelength characteristic as to reflect the second light and to pass the third light.
  • the light collecting optical system 3 according to the second embodiment corresponds to the light collecting optical system 1 according to the first embodiment but the locations of the surface-emitting light sources 31, 32 and 33 and the locations of the dichroic mirrors 37 and 38 are changed from those in the first embodiment.
  • Optical distances from collimate lenses 34, 35 and 36 of the respective colors to a condenser lens 39 are made approximately the same among the colors.
  • FIG. 10 is a diagram schematically showing a structure of a cross dichroic mirror for comparison.
  • the cross dichroic mirror includes a single piece of large mirror 17 (first mirror) and two pieces of small mirrors 18 (second and third mirrors) arranged so as to hold the large mirror 17 between the small mirrors.
  • end faces 51 and 52 of the second and third mirrors 18 opposed to a face of the first mirror 17 have no wavelength characteristics (that is, have no characteristics as to pass and reflect only light of specific wavelengths). Slight gaps exist between the second and third mirror end faces 51 and 52 and the first mirror 17.
  • the light collecting optical system 3 and the projection-type image display apparatus 4 according to the second embodiment can avoid incurrence of a light quantity loss and achieve a higher light utilization efficiency.
  • the second embodiment is the same as the first embodiment except for the aforementioned points.
  • FIG. 11 is a diagram schematically showing an arrangement of a light collecting optical system 5 and an arrangement of a projection-type image display apparatus 6 according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
  • elements that are the same as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference characters.
  • surface-emitting light sources 41, 42 and 43 are surface-emitting light sources (e.g., LEDs) of R, G, B colors.
  • the surface-emitting light sources 41, 42 and 43 shown in FIG. 11 correspond to, for example, R, G, B surface-emitting light sources respectively.
  • the present invention is not limited to this example, but correspondences between the surface-emitting light sources 41, 42, 43 and the R, G, B colors may be other correspondences.
  • the transmissive and reflective characteristics of dichroic mirrors 47 and 48 are determined based on the colors of light emitted from the surface-emitting light sources 41, 42 and 43.
  • the dichroic mirror 47 has such wavelength characteristic as to reflect light (second light) of a wavelength band emitted from the light emitting surface of the surface-emitting light source 43 and to pass light (third light) of a wavelength band emitted from the light emitting surface of the surface-emitting light source 43.
  • the dichroic mirror 48 has such a wavelength characteristic as to reflect light (first light) of a wavelength band emitted from the light emitting surface of the surface-emitting light source 41 and to pass the second and third light.
  • a reflecting mirror 49 directs the first and third light into a condenser lens 50.
  • the light collecting optical system 5 according to the third embodiment corresponds to the light collecting optical system 3 according to the second embodiment, but is different from the light collecting optical system 3 in that a distance from the dichroic mirror 34 to the dichroic mirror 37 is made long and the condenser lens 50 is located in the optical path thereof to bend the optical path to an approximately right angle.
  • Optical distances from collimate lenses 44, 45 and 46 to the condenser lens 50 are made approximately the same among the colors.
  • the optical path is bent by the reflecting mirror 49 in a direction normal to the longitudinal direction of the integrator rod 20; the size of the longitudinal direction of the integrator rod 20 in the light collecting optical system 5 can be made small.
  • the light collecting optical system 5 and the projection-type image display apparatus 6 of according to the third embodiment can obtain a high light utilization efficiency without incurring a light quantity loss.
  • the third embodiment is the same as the aforementioned first or second embodiment, except for the other points than the aforementioned points.

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